About number and composition population of MYKOLAIV REGIONby data All-Ukrainian census of the population 2001

The language structure of region, according to the data of the All-Ukrainian census of the population, is characterized by the following data:

The part of those whose mother tongue was ( %)

the language of their nationality

Ukrainian

Russian

other language

Ukrainians

82.4

х

17.5

0.1

Russians

93.7

6.2

х

0.1

Moldavians

54.6

28.5

16.8

0.1

Belarussians

19.6

21.8

58.5

0.1

Bulgarians

29.7

16.9

53.2

0.2

Armenians

56.9

7.1

35.8

0.2

Jews

2.4

10.1

87.4

0.1

Koreans

21.1

6.3

70.8

1.8

Azerbaijanians

57.5

8.1

33.3

1.1

Gypsies

43.3

38.7

15.2

2.8

Poles

7.4

47.4

44.1

1.1

Tatars

18.9

7.3

73.5

0.3

Germans

5.3

26.8

67.7

0.2

other

32.6

13.8

37.3

16.3

The part of those whose mother tongue is Ukrainian totals 69.2% of the population of region, this is by 5 percentage points more than in 1989. The percentage of those whose mother tongue is Russian totals 29.3% of the population,comparatively with the data of previous census this index has decreased by 4.5 percentage points. The part of other languages, specified like mother tongue, during the period that have passed since previous census has decreased by 0.5 percentage points and accounts for 1.5%.